Edvard Munch

Frankfurt

Edvard Munch is acclaimed for his vivid Symbolist painting and regarded as a pioneer of Expressionism. The exhibition The Modern Eye offers a novel view of his work. It is for the first time that Munch’s interest in modern techniques of creating pictures such as photography and film and modern stage designs is the focus of attention. His works reveal to what degree he adopted specifically photographic or filmic forms of composition and narration, poses, or even effects in his painting.

Supplementing the presentation of about sixty paintings and twenty works on paper, one chapter of the show is dedicated to Munch’s own attempts in the field of photography and film. A further dimension of the exhibition reveals how the artist dealt with one and the same subject in drawing, photography, painting, graphic art, and sculpture. The artist’s frequent return to already rendered motifs provides a crucial key to the understanding of Munch’s work.

Schirn

February 9th – May 28th, 2012
Römerberg 6
60311 Frankfurt
Germany

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